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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2024-12-20 09:50

Modified

2025-05-20 10:02

Summary

Rails Possible XSS Vulnerability in Action Controller

Details

Rails is a web-application framework. There is a possible XSS vulnerability when using the translation helpers in Action Controller. Applications using translation methods like translate, or t on a controller, with a key ending in "_html", a :default key which contains untrusted user input, and the resulting string is used in a view, may be susceptible to an XSS vulnerability. The vulnerability is fixed in 7.1.3.1 and 7.0.8.1.

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  "modified": "2025-05-20T10:02:07.006Z",
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CVE-2024-26143 (GCVE-0-2024-26143)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-02-27 15:33 – Updated: 2025-02-13 17:41

Title

Rails Possible XSS Vulnerability in Action Controller

Summary

Severity

6.1 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-02-29 18:24 UTC

CWE

CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Assigner

GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 7761 records in the last 180 days details

References

6 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/rails/rails/security/advisorie…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/4c83b331092…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/5187a9ef519…	x_refsource_MISC
https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/possible-xss-vu…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/…	x_refsource_MISC
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-2024051…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
rails	rails	Affected: >= 7.0.0, < 7.0.8.1 Affected: >= 7.1.0, < 7.1.3.1

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